Amphipolis

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(Ἀμφίπολις; Amphípolis). City in the fertile land of the Edones, on a hillside 4.5 km upriver of the mouth of the Strymon which surrounds the city on three sides. It was founded in 437/6 BC by the Athenian Hagnon in this strategically dominating position (Ἐννέα Ὁδοί, Ennéa Hodoí, ‘Nine Ways’), with the support and participation of other Greek towns (Thuc. 9; Diod. Sic. 12,32,3). A. controlled the land rou…